Re: moderation [was: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user]
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:08:41AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> There's a legal issue here that nobody's mentioned.
>
> At least in the US, there is a growing body of law and precedent that
> says, essentially:
>
> - if you provide a list, but don't moderate traffic, you're not legally
> liable for things like slander, libel, copyright infringement, child
> pornography, etc.
>
> - as soon as you do ANY moderation, you now open yourself up to a legal
> challenges on many fronts, both civil and criminal, for messages that
> might be actionable
That's why I suggest a writen code of conduct / policy that covers OT
and other issues, that is then self-regulated by the users of the list.
Doug.
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